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Einstein and art

A great review from The American Scientist, posted at Powell's Books on "Einstein's Worldview and its Effects." Boring title, I know, but the review sure makes this book look enticing.

It begins:

"This book makes an entertaining, engaging and informative effort to tackle a notoriously difficult topic: Albert Einstein's influence on society and culture. Einstein is strongly associated with modernism in the public mind. But the natural impulse to portray the man himself as a modernist has always been complicated by his own conservative taste in the arts (and even, it could be argued, in the sciences), as well as by the emerging division of the arts and sciences into two cultures, which became prominent during the course of Einstein's life and is visible in his own attitudes toward the arts...

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